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to: Daniel O`leary
from: Ken Weitzel
date: 2004-03-06 19:27:00
subject: Re: Laptop 1/2

Daniel:

Not to be a creep; but simply to show you how easily
we make simple silly errors in these type messages...


DO>It is hard to look past the poor spelling, capitalization and grammar in you
  >above post. Perhaps you needed to perform better in school, or you are mildl
  >dyslexic (like I believe I am sometimes).   You already have the option of
  >homeschooling your children, if you are dissatisfied with the education your
  >kids are getting in school.   If you chose this option, you'd have the
  >obligation and responsibility  to be there doing it instead of reliing on

reliing ?

  >someone else to do it.  Homeschooling has its advantages, as well as its
  >drawbacks.

DO>Teachers in public schools have their hands tied in the classroom, with no
  >ability to address poor discipline less they trample some kid's rights. They

kid's ?   less ?

  >must engage in valiant attempts to get students to pass poorly contrived
  >standardized tests to "demonstrate performance", rather
than teaching kids h
  >to reason and be responible for their actions. Their antiquated and outdated

responible ?

  >classrooms are filled with kids that do not know how to behave, how to liste
  >to instruction, how to take notes, or how to do research.  These kids do not
  >know how to organize initial ideas into a structured theme, nor do they know
  >how to develop them  with supporting data.  Many cannot communicate effectiv
  > because English is not their primary language. Some are being socailly

socailly ?

  >promoted because of fears concerning their  behavior when they are placed in
  >classrooms full of much younger kids -  you'd better believe that these kids
  >know how to exploit the problems in the system right now -0 and this has
  >nothing to to wiith teachers unions.

wiith ?

DO>Blaming the teachers for trying to get the same collective bargaining rights
  >that actors, athletes and other proferssionals enjoy is rediculous. Unions w

proferssionals ?   rediculous ?

  >established for one reason, to ensure that check-and-balance conditions exis
  >Without them underage kids would still be working in swaetshop factories, an

swaetshop ?

  >losing limbs as well as their lives.  Corparations would be running roughsho

corparations ?

  >over their employees and working people would be far worse off than they are
  >now.

DO>A better solution is to economically penalize corporations that are so
  >concerned with the current bottom line, that they have forgotten where their
  >success came from - The customers and employees that are right in the
  >communities where they got their start, the customers in the same country wh
  >they got their start. If they decide to relocate their business elsewhere, t
  >first make it cost them a lot of money to accomplish the move, and then disb
  >them from doing business here if they still elect to move offshore.

DO>This may appear to be a protectionist stance, but for too long the consumers
  >and government have been greasing the exit ramp.   Today's workers have

today's ?

  >families who are today's consumers and tommorow's workforce. Put the blame

tommorow's ?

  >where it belongs.  These guys have been getting tax breaks and other incenti
  >that working class people and small businesses do not get, and that lost inc
  >is needed not to be squandered or kicked back to some fat cat, but to really
  >fix things.

DO>I'm not a teacher - I couldn't do the job, because I couldn't put up with th
  >crap they do.  I'm an engineer who'se job is identifying problems and propos

who'se ?

  >solutions to them. Unfortunately,  I cannot solve them because I have to get
  >those who do not understand them  (Management) to recognize that they are
  >probelms first, and second grant the authority to those who can solve them.


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